Tonight with friends: Nicolas Cage skull shaved in a western without concession

Even if he calmed the level of filming rhythm, Nicolas Cage is still quite prolific and continues to work at a rate of three feature films per year on average. And one of its latest appearances is a western that deserves better than its release in all discretion on MyCanal (it is also available on Prime Video).

Skull shaved for the first time

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Entitled Butcher's Crossing, it takes place to … Butcher's Crossing, a small town in Kansas Butcher's Crossing and sees Will Andrews (played by Fred Hechinger, seen in Gladiator 2) land from the east coast while wanting to hunt for bison, a leisure that it idealizes. Despite the advice of his entourage, Will decides to make the trip with a western veteran: a certain Miller (cage). The latter says he knows the last place where we find bison in large numbers, but does he really have all his mental health?

Even if he likes to change the look with each film in order to soak up his characters, this is the very first time that Nicolas Cage has agreed to completely shave his head for a role. Thanks to this unprecedented look, he can create a new composition leaving the beaten track. His Miller really looks like an old and tough cowboy to cook such as cinema has offered us since its creation.

A great performance by Nicolas Cage

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Shot in Montana in less than 20 days, Butcher's Crossing is a pleasant surprise, both from the point of view of its representation of the American West (a terrible and uncompromising era) and in its characters. The scenario is certainly agreed, the archetypal characters, and it will certainly lack action for some, but the performance of cage and the atmosphere of this western are worth the trip.

Butcher's Crossing is directed by Gabe Polsky, a director of documentaries who signs his second fictional feature here after The Motel Life in 2012. He knew Nic Cage for having produced Bad Lieutenant: stopover in New Orleans of Werner Herzog (2010).